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By Waqas
Although unconfirmed; the notorious REvil ransomware gang could be behind the DDoS attacks on VoIP.ms. Here’s what we know so far.
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The experts at security firm Bitdefender, in collaboration with “a trusted law enforcement partner”, have made available a universal decryptor for victims of the REvil ransomware (also sometimes known as Sodinokibi). Continue reading Free decryptor for past REvil ransomware victims released
By Waqas
Bitdefender stated that all victims who got their files/data encrypted by the REvil ransomware might use the decryptor key to restore them.
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As law enforcement braces for the revival of the REvil ransomware gang, a cybersecurity firm on Thursday released a free decryption tool for early victims of the criminals. The decryptor, which Bitdefender developed in coordination with an unnamed law enforcement partner, will aid victims hit before July 13. The Romania-based company said it was still in the middle of an investigation with its partner, which agreed to release the decryptor before completing the joint inquiry to help as many victims as possible. Bitdefender has a long history of working with Europol to release tools that help victims of digital extortion sidestep the process of making a payment. “We believe new REvil attacks are imminent after the ransomware gang’s servers and supporting infrastructure recently came back online after a two month hiatus,” Bitdefender wrote in a blog post. According to another cybersecurity firm, Flashpoint, REvil is already fully back in business. […]
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After a summer marked by big ransomware attacks from suspected Russian gangs, some of those same groups went quiet. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said Thursday that it’s too early to tell if the trend will hold. “Those attacks have fallen off. Those syndicates have to some degree deconstructed,” Inglis said at an event hosted by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. “I think it’s a fair bet they have self-deconstructed and essentially gone cold and quiet to see whether the storm will blow over and whether they can then come back.” Whether they do so will depend largely on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin takes steps to undo the “permissive” atmosphere after U.S. President Joe Biden warned him repeatedly about ransomware attacks originating from his country. “It’s too soon to say we’re out of the woods on this,” Inglis said. The FBI blamed Russian ransomware gang REvil for […]
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By Waqas
The official website of the REvil ransomware gang (aka Sodinokibi) which is accessible through the Tor browser is back online after going offline since July 2021.
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The Russian approach to hacking shifted considerably over the past year, with state-sponsored attacks on commercial organizations dropping off even as the local cybercrime scene dominated the field, CrowdStrike said in a report Wednesday. From July 2020 to June of this year, Russian state-backed hacking outfits accounted for only a tiny sliver of nation-sponsored attacks aimed at commercial enterprises detected by the cyber firm’s threat hunting service, at 1% compared to China’s 69%. (The figure represents the findings from only one threat intelligence firm, and does not account for hacking campaigns that CrowdStrike might have missed.) Meanwhile, the suspected Russia-based hacking group that CrowdStrike calls Wizard Spider, and that has used the Ryuk ransomware since 2018, was responsible for double the number of detected attempted intrusions of any other cybercrime gang over the same period. While CrowdStrike didn’t have comparison figures on the percentages of state-sponsored attacks on commercial organizations […]
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By Waqas
Reportedly, the REvil ransomware gang is using DDoS attacks to make huge ransom demands from victim companies VoIP Unlimited and Voipfone.
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More email users fell for scams using CAPTCHA technology in 2020, a new report from security firm Proofpoint shows. The technique, which uses a visual puzzle to help authenticate human behavior, received 50 times as many clicks in 2020 compared to 2019. That’s still only a 5% overall response rate, researchers note. Comparatively, one in five users clicked attachment-based emails with malware disguised as Microsoft PowerPoints or Excel spreadsheets. Campaigns using attachments to hide malware made up one in four of the attacks researchers at Proofpoint monitored. “Attackers don’t hack in, they log in, and people continue to be the most critical factor in today’s cyber attacks,” Ryan Kalember, executive vice president of cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint said in a statement. Researchers found that quantity continues to beat quality in email attacks. Proofpoint found that the highest number of clicks came from a threat actor linked to the Emotet botnet. […]
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By Sudais Asif
Currently, it is unclear if Haron and BlackMatter ransomware gangs have been started by now-defunct REvil and DarkSide ransomware operators.
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